Rights group Amnesty International called on Tuesday for Yemen to ensure that a newspaper editor and his two sons arrested earlier this month are protected from "torture and other ill-treatment." Yemeni police on January 6 arrested Hisham Bashraheel, the owner and editor of the main southern newspaper, Al-Ayyam, following deadly clashes between police and armed guards of the banned daily ...

Thailand must halt a "backward slide" on freedom of expression after a sharp rise in cases of people accused of insulting the revered monarchy, a leading rights group said Wednesday. Amnesty International said it welcomed a panel established by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in December to scrutinise the enforcement of Thailand's tough lese majeste laws, which carry a jail ...

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International Wednesday called for the release of a Malawian gay couple jailed last week after holding a traditional wedding ceremony. "The arrest of the two men solely for their real or perceived sexual orientation amounts to discrimination and it is in violation of their rights to freedom of conscience, expression and privacy," the group said in ...

Police in Nigeria carry out hundreds of extra-judicial killings every year and only those who can afford to pay bribes can guarantee their safety from execution or torture, Amnesty International said Wednesday. "The Nigeria Police Force is responsible for hundreds of extrajudicial executions, other unlawful killings and enforced disappearances every year," the London-based rights group said in a damning ...